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Biogas plant owner and operator EnviTec Biogas has won awards for 16MW of electricity capacity under Germany’s biomass federal auction.
The auction is a competitive bidding process used by the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) to award financial support to large bioenergy and biomethane power plants, and winners receive a 20-year feed-in tariff.
EnviTec CEO Olaf von Lehmden said, “This enables us to place part of our plant portfolio on a new basis with long-term planning certainty. At the same time, we are continuing along the path of gradually unlocking value creation outside the subsidised EEG (Renewable Energy Sources Act) framework for our plants.”
The German Federal Network Agency regularly conducts public auctions for renewable energy installations.
The aim is to determine support levels on a competitive basis while at the same time maintaining demand-oriented biogas capacity within the electricity system.
For operators, participation is a strategic option for continuing to run selected plants beyond the current support period on a secure remuneration basis.
An intensive preparation phase involved specific technical implementation concepts for each plant, which was followed by the calculation of volumes and bid prices, as well as the actual tendering process.
As plants must be implemented no later than three-and-a-half years after the award is granted, only those plants whose existing EEG support expires by 31 December 2029 at the latest were taken into account.
EnviTec Biogas signed three new contracts with first-time customers in Bavaria, Bremen and Saxony-Anhalt and finalised its second biomethane project in Slovakia at an existing biogas plant owned by agricultural company Cita Via .
Alongside biogas, EnviTec’s business activities include the production and marketing of climate-neutral fuels (bioLNG) for the transport sector as well as food-grade liquid carbon dioxide.
